The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top stories concerning ancestral research in Britain, Ireland, and their diasporas, from Irish born Scottish based professional family historian, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit The GENES Blog if you do so. To contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com.

Two Belfast history books back in print

Early Belfast: The origins and growth of an Ulster town to 1750 charts the town's remarkable growth from site to city, from the first mentions of it as long ago as the 7th century through to the 13th
century Anglo-Norman settlement and Gaelic revival, to the Plantation town of the 17th and 18th centuries.

By the start of the twentieth century Belfast had become one of the main centres of the British shipbuilding industry. But shipbuilding in Belfast was a most unlikely success story in that the cities
prosperity was created by a strange mixture of entrepreneurial ability, timing and technical expertise. An unlikely success story: The Belfast shipbuilding industry, 1880-1935 offers the first history
of the Belfast shipbuilding industry and the tens of thousands affected by its growth.

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy, A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.